GitHub Contract Job Trends in South Wales

GitHub
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring GitHub skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 18 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 8 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.09% 7.51% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% 26.60% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 7
10th Percentile £387 £464 £474
25th Percentile - £496 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% -2.28% -7.33%
75th Percentile £415 £550 £619
90th Percentile £571 £551 £643
Wales median daily rate £405 £525 £554
% change year-on-year -22.89% -5.15% -4.53%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 80 94 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 30.89% 28.23% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 65 96
10th Percentile £190 £181 £170
25th Percentile £304 £250 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £495 £431
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +14.78% -17.86%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £566
90th Percentile £630 £623 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £490 £431
% change year-on-year -8.16% +13.62% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.20 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +7.95% +25.00%
75th Percentile £19.92 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £21.67 - £25.10
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.25% +33.33%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in South Wales

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in South Wales over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in South Wales

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -14 8 £405 -22.89% 14
GitHub
Wales

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (12.50%) JBoss
3 1 (12.50%) nginx
3 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (12.50%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) OCI
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) Anaconda
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Business Case
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) LXC
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat